6.  The applicants were born in 1974 and 1954 respectively and live in Luleå.
7.  On 25 March 2006, the first applicant arrived in Sweden with her son, A, born in 1999. On 17 April 2006, she married the second applicant. Subsequently, on 7 September 2006, she and A applied to the Migration Board (Migrationsverket) for asylum and residence permits, submitting that she belonged to a family of political opponents in Turkmenistan and was sought by the authorities there. A’s father had died in a car accident in 2005. She further referred to her marriage to the second applicant. To prove her identity, she submitted a work identity card, a birth certificate and the diploma of her degree in medicine.
8.  On 27 May 2008, the Migration Board rejected the application. It questioned the first applicant’s credibility because her statements had been vague and inconsistent. In addition, she had not submitted her passport, of which the Board considered she was in possession, and she had not helped the domestic authorities to clarify her route to Sweden. In response to a question to the German Embassy in Ashgabat, the Board had been informed that the first applicant and A had been granted visas to visit Germany from 1 April to 22 April 2006. A’s father had given his approval and, consequently, must have been alive in 2006. As the first applicant had been granted a visa, the Board concluded that she had left Turkmenistan legally. Consequently, it was improbable that she was perceived as a political opponent. As concerned the first applicant’s marriage to the second applicant, the Board questioned the seriousness of the applicants’ marriage since they had married less than a month after the first applicant’s arrival in Sweden and had never met before. Moreover, an application for a residence permit on this ground should, as a rule, be submitted before arrival in Sweden.
9.  The first applicant and A appealed against the decision to the Migration Court (Migrationsdomstolen) and added that the visa documents were false. Moreover, their ties to Sweden were stronger than those to their home country since they had no remaining family in Turkmenistan.
10.  On 29 April 2009, after having held an oral hearing, the Migration Court upheld the Board’s decision in full. It considered that the documents related to the visas were most probably authentic whereas A’s father’s death certificate, submitted by the first applicant, had low evidentiary value. Turning to whether the first applicant could be granted a residence permit because of her marriage, the court did not find it unreasonable to ask her and A to return to their country, or another country, and apply from there.
11.  The first applicant and A appealed to the Migration Court of Appeal (Migrationsöverdomstolen) which, on 16 July 2009, refused leave to appeal.
12.  On 28 January 2010, the first applicant gave birth to her and the second applicant’s son, B, and lodged an application for reconsideration of her case on the basis of her family ties. The Migration Board rejected her request as it considered that she could not be granted a residence permit on the basis of her family ties and that there were no impediments to the enforcement of the deportation order. Their appeal to the Migration Court and the Migration Court of Appeal against this decision was unsuccessful.
13.  On 24 September 2010, A was adopted by the second applicant and hence became a Swedish citizen. Subsequently the first applicant again applied for reconsideration of her case, relying on her family ties with the second applicant, A and B. This request was also rejected.
14.  Subsequently, the first applicant lodged several new requests for reconsideration, without success.
15.  In May 2013 the applicants informed the Court that they were expecting another child, due to be born in October 2013.
16.  On 17 July 2013 the first applicant submitted a new application for a residence permit in Sweden to the Migration Board.